What will it take to realize our aim of a nation of physically active people?While there’s no easy answer, I believe an important step towards this goal is to work together to create a shared vision and roadmap with measurable objectives.Now that Healthy People 2020 is well underway, we are in a position to make this vision and roadmap a reality.For three decades, Healthy People has collaborated with organizations across the nation to provide a set of science-based national 10-year health objectives for promoting health and preventing disease that include physical activity objectives.

ACSM realizes the importance of HP2020 to the American public. We've sent multiple notices about the online comment period to our members, encouraging them to make suggestions on the draft physical activity objectives. In addition, an ACSM past President recently spoke at one of the HP2020 town hall meetings in Philadelphia. I'm glad we can weigh in with our expertise.